Chapter Summaries

Miao Mu and Barry crossed into the Dark Multiverse using the Hyper-Adapter and fell into a strange world. After they landed in the sea, a collision activated the Time Grandfather Clock and made Miao Mu vanish, leaving Barry alone underwater.

• Miao Mu prepared survival gear, brought Barry along, and activated the Hyper-Adapter to travel between worlds.
• During the crossing, Miao Mu saw the Dark Multiverse while Barry became entranced by visions of countless timelines.
• Miao Mu roused Barry, who used his super speed to carry them into a glowing world-sphere.
• They fell from the sky into the sea, and Barry deployed a Wayne Enterprises life raft while Miao Mu sank under the weight of the Time Grandfather Clock.
• A black weapon struck Miao Mu's clock, which spun backward as the Speed Force flowed into it and made Miao Mu disappear.
• Barry rushed after Miao Mu, found only empty water, and released a surge of Speed Force.

Miao Mu landed on Earth-11 and discovered that this flooded, gender-swapped world had turned Oswald Cobblepot into Penguin Woman. After helping Batboy defeat her, Miao Mu was left with a potential new ally while still worried about Barry.

• Miao Mu crashed into Penguin Woman’s trading warehouse and was captured by her armed gang.
• Miao Mu recognized Earth-11 and worried that Barry might be in danger, while Barry floated alone in a lifeboat on the ocean.
• Penguin Woman threatened Miao Mu and questioned him about his identity and friend.
• Batboy burst into the warehouse to confront Penguin Woman, and Miao Mu broke free to help fight her bodyguards.
• Penguin Woman tried to escape in a cloud of smoke, but Miao Mu kicked her down and Batboy handcuffed her.
• Batboy checked on Miao Mu and noticed his bloody nose, which he dismissed as overheating.

Miao Mu arrived in Bara Gordon’s world and learned that Batwoman had retired after Bane broke her spine. He offered to cure her and agreed to help Bara find Bane, leaving them preparing to confront the mercenary.

• Miao Mu asked Bara Gordon about the year and his family, then explained that he came from another world.
• Bara tested Miao Mu’s knowledge of Batman’s identity and enemy, then revealed that Batwoman had retired and he had become Batboy.
• Bara explained that Bane had broken Batwoman’s spine and was still hunting her, leaving her whereabouts confidential.
• Miao Mu offered to cure Batwoman for gold and agreed to help Bara find Bane after learning that Penguin Woman had been selling her weapons.

Miao Mu stormed Bane’s heavily guarded base and fought through her mercenaries before confronting Bane herself. He interrupted her Venom transformation and left her reeling from a string of powerful blows.

• Miao Mu ignored Bala’s warning and attacked the base, shooting the guards at the entrance and destroying the watchtower with a grenade.
• Miao Mu caught a falling mercenary and broke her spine, then fought his way past reinforcements into the camp.
• Bane attacked Miao Mu with a thrown desk and gunfire, but his Demon Armor deflected the bullets.
• Miao Mu disarmed and struck Bane, knocking her down before she rose in her skull mask.
• Bane activated her Venom, but Miao Mu attacked during the transformation and landed a series of punches and an uppercut that sent her crashing backward.

Miao Mu learned about the gender-swapped world he had landed in and met its Batman, Brucie Wayne, in her underground base. Brucie hoped he could help her recover from her broken spine, and she invited him and Bala to dinner.

• Miao Mu defeated Bane and her mercenaries, then had Bala contact the police to collect them.
• Miao Mu searched Bala’s laptop and learned about the world’s reversed genders and altered heroes, including Wonder Man and Superwoman.
• Bala led Miao Mu through a hidden elevator to Brucie Wayne’s underground base.
• Brucie thanked Miao Mu for capturing Bane and revealed that an exoskeleton might help her stand, while Miao Mu said it would not heal her broken spine.
• Mrs. Alfred invited Miao Mu and Bala to dinner, and Brucie asked Miao Mu to tell them about his world.

Miao Mu dressed in clothes prepared by Mrs. Alfred and examined Brucie's reconstructed Multiverse map, discussing the nature of her world and its possible front and reverse sides. He then prepared to leave, and Brucie offered him a motorcycle for transportation.

• Miao Mu woke to repeated Adventure Treasure notifications, checked the Omega Energy accumulating in his Hyper-Adapter, and changed into clothes prepared by Mrs. Alfred.
• Miao Mu joined Brucie in the command room, where she showed him her reconstructed Multiverse map and let him view it through special glasses.
• Miao Mu asked whether their world was on the front or reverse side, and Brucie argued that different choices could lead to either destruction or survival.
• Miao Mu said he needed to travel somewhere far away, and Brucie revealed a modified motorcycle for him to use.
• Miao Mu admired the motorcycle, then felt uneasy when Brucie contrasted it with the Batmobile and a blue Porsche.

Brucie searched for information about Miao Mu and prepared payment for his treatment while deciding to regain her ability to stand. Miao Mu found two unusual items in Gotham and set off to search for a third.

• Brucie found no records of Miao Mu in Gotham's databases, while Mrs. Alfred prepared gold and antiques as payment for his treatment.
• Brucie said she would use an exoskeleton to stand again and considered Mrs. Alfred's suggestion that she take a trip.
• Miao Mu followed his intuition to an abandoned house and found the Lion King's Sidearm, a supernatural weapon with a folding bayonet.
• Miao Mu searched a crow's nest at Indian Hill and found Two-Face's Decision Coin among the birds' collected objects.
• Miao Mu flipped the coin, but it chose nothing because he had not been considering a decision.

Miao Mu found and tested the unpredictable Smile Pocket at an abandoned amusement park before returning to the Bat Base. There, he examined Brucie's severe spinal injury and prepared to treat her, but an alert from the Batcomputer interrupted them.

• Miao Mu searched the abandoned amusement park and recovered a smiley-face cushion that stored objects in an unpredictable dimensional space.
• Miao Mu tested the Smile Pocket by storing a chair and a television, then set fire to the tent before leaving.
• Miao Mu returned to the Bat Base, where Brucie asked whether he could heal her spine and offered payment for treatment.
• Miao Mu examined Brucie's scan through special glasses, saw how badly her spine was damaged, and told her to prepare for treatment.
• The Batcomputer suddenly sounded and its virtual screens lit up, making Brucie's expression turn ugly.

Halin infiltrated the hospital and freed Harley Quinn, who had been imprisoned for over a year. Harley agreed to marry him and set out armed to reclaim what she considered hers, while Halin promised to find Batwoman for the wedding.

• Halin entered the hospital using his credentials and sedated a guard in the surveillance room.
• Halin found Harley Quinn in a caged room and broke in, bringing gasoline, explosives, and a lipstick presented like an engagement ring.
• Halin reunited with Harley, and she learned Gotham had been lively while she was imprisoned.
• Harley agreed to marry Halin and asked him to find Batwoman so she could attend.
• Harley destroyed the hidden camera, left the cage, and walked into the corridor as gunshots rang out.

Miao Mu stopped Brucie from leaving to work on Bane’s armor and treated her injured spine with a healing potion. After Brucie flirted with him, the two began an intimate encounter, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Brucie used her mechanical exoskeleton to try to leave, but Miao Mu caught her when she was overcome by pain.
• Miao Mu carried Brucie to the bedroom, removed the exoskeleton’s controller, and realigned her broken vertebrae while she drank his potion.
• Brucie teased Miao Mu as her spine healed, and Miao Mu made a sexual advance.
• Brucie welcomed Miao Mu’s touch, and he pounced on her.

Miao Mu spent the day with Brucie while Barry remained trapped at sea until a mysterious statue pulled him away. In Gotham, Harley Quinn set a trap for Bane, fought Batboy, and sent him to invite Batwoman to her party.

• Miao Mu and Brucie flirted in bed before she went to shower, while Miao Mu forgot that Barry was still missing.
• Barry tried to escape the ocean with the Speed Force, discovered a metal statue resembling Miao Mu, and was sucked into a black hole when he connected to another Speed Force current.
• Harley Quinn unplugged Bane's respirator, rigged a gasoline fire trap at his hospital room, and left him chained inside.
• Harley Quinn confronted Batboy in a parking lot, dodged his attacks, and wounded him with a knife.
• Harley Quinn sprayed Batboy with laughing gas and ordered him to invite Batwoman to her grand party, which might also be a wedding.

Harley Quinn turned Gotham Police Headquarters into a villainous party and declared herself Gotham City's mayor, but Riddle Woman stole the criminals' crown and challenged them to find it at Eagle's Nest. Firefly was badly injured pursuing her, and Pig-Faced Professor took her away for surgery.

• Harley Quinn and the assembled villains celebrated after criminals seized Gotham Police Headquarters and turned it into a party venue.
• Harley Quinn announced that she wanted to become Gotham City's mayor and promised to abolish its laws, prompting the criminals to crown her their king of crime.
• Riddle Woman stole the crown and declared that whoever found it at Eagle's Nest would become the king of crime.
• Firefly pursued Riddle Woman through a skylight, but a water cannon blasted her back and left her severely injured.
• Pig-Faced Professor carried Firefly to his operating room, while Commissioner Gordon was set to serve as a wedding witness and cake.

Miao Mu wandered through a riot-torn Gotham, was shot by a boy carrying a teddy bear, and killed the boy and his hidden puppet. After spotting strange moth-shaped lights, he sensed someone lurking nearby and shot them, but the cloaked figure survived and raised their head.

• Miao Mu found Gotham in flames and chaos, knocked down a looting police detective, and took a chocolate bar before paying for it.
• A boy asked Miao Mu to break a shop window so he could retrieve a teddy bear, then shot Miao Mu when his back was turned.
• Miao Mu survived the gunfire, killed the boy with his revolver, and discovered that the teddy bear was empty.
• Miao Mu identified the boy as the Ventriloquist and the teddy bear as Scarface, then noticed moth-shaped beams shining down over Gotham.
• Miao Mu used his Golden Hexagram pendant to spot a lurking figure and shot them three times before kicking them into a wall.
• The cloaked figure showed no blood and raised their head after Miao Mu's attack.

Brucie raced through Gotham to get help and rescue Batboy, fighting Killer Frost and Poison Moth along the way. She escaped Poison Moth by ramming her car and headed for the nearest Batbase, where Mrs. Alfred had prepared help.

• Brucie found Gotham in chaos and drove to the police station seeking Commissioner Gordon, but discovered it deserted and Batboy tied up beneath a tablecloth, poisoned with the Joker’s laughing gas.
• Brucie gave Batboy an antidote and evaded Killer Frost’s freeze gun, then incapacitated her by overheating her protective suit and handcuffed her to a pipe.
• Poison Moth attacked as Brucie carried Batboy to the Batmobile, forcing Brucie to flee while calling Mrs. Alfred for help with the antidote.
• Poison Moth pursued and fired missiles and bullets at Brucie, who turned around and rammed the moth car, crippling it.
• Brucie drove toward the nearest Batbase with Batboy while Mrs. Alfred prepared everything.

Miao Mu met a masked woman from the Court of Owls, who told him an ancient prophecy predicted the world's destruction and asked him to help restore it. He left without learning her identity, and she revealed a face identical to Brucie's as she disposed of Ms. Powers.

• Dick Grayson led Miao Mu to a villa where a masked woman was waiting for him.
• The woman took Miao Mu into an underground chamber and explained that the Court of Owls had heard a prophecy about a god destroying the world.
• Miao Mu recognized the prophecy's god as Barbatos and suspected the world was headed toward a dark version of Negative Earth-11.
• The woman said Miao Mu could change the world because the god wanted him dead, and he decided he knew what to do.
• After Miao Mu left, the woman removed her mask, revealed a face identical to Brucie's, and threw Ms. Powers into the Electrum fountain.

Harley Quinn attacked Riddle Woman’s hideout, only to learn the crown was hidden in one of eleven boxes scattered across Gotham. As Brucie flew toward the city’s only quiet location, Arkham Asylum, Miao Mu decided he had a way to save the world and pursued the Batplane in a stolen police car.

• Harley Quinn followed Riddle Woman’s recorded taunts, learned the crown was hidden in one of eleven boxes around Gotham, and destroyed the recorders in a rage.
• Brucie prepared the Batplane to search for Commissioner Gordon while Mrs. Alfred told her that Miao Mu had gone looking for her.
• Brucie flew over Gotham, used the Batplane’s searchlight and machine gun to scatter attackers at a jewelry store, and noticed Arkham Asylum was the only place without reported chaos.
• Miao Mu saw the Batplane overhead, decided he knew how to save the world, and stole a damaged police car to follow it toward Arkham Asylum.

Brucie broke into Arkham Asylum to question Halin about Harley Quinn and Joker, but learned nothing before Miao Mu arrived. He handcuffed himself to Brucie and left with her in the Batplane, warning her not to unlock the cuffs before dawn.

• Brucie found Halin in Arkham Asylum and demanded to know where Harley Quinn and Joker had gone.
• Halin blamed Brucie for the deaths outside, and she tortured him until he still refused to reveal their whereabouts.
• Miao Mu climbed through a broken window, found Brucie, and said Mrs. Alfred was worried about her.
• Miao Mu handcuffed himself to Brucie and warned her that opening the cuffs could bring consequences neither of them could bear.
• Brucie took Miao Mu to the Batplane, where he climbed into the cramped cockpit with her and she activated autopilot.

Miao Mu tried to keep Brucie from losing herself by keeping her close and revealing that Gotham was shrouded in darkness while the rest of the world remained normal. They went to Wayne Tower to wait for whoever was targeting Brucie, where Deadshot appeared.

• Miao Mu pulled a bullet from his wound while Brucie watched, then tore her uniform and carried her into the bedroom.
• Afterward, Miao Mu showed Brucie that it was eleven in the morning and Gotham was still pitch-black beneath thick clouds.
• Miao Mu told Brucie that someone was trying to drive her insane and that Gotham and Brucie were the door and key to what was happening.
• Brucie decided they should go to Wayne Tower, and she and Miao Mu flew there in the Batplane.
• Deadshot arrived on the rooftop after receiving a hundred million, drew his pistol, and confronted Brucie and Miao Mu.

Brucie and Miao Mu defeated Deadshot and offered her a bodyguard job, but a group of apparently unkillable Talons attacked the rooftop. Deadshot was killed as the Talons pursued Brucie and Miao Mu toward the elevator.

• Deadshot ambushed Brucie and Miao Mu with gunfire, but their linked handcuffs and Brucie's grenades helped them close in and subdue her.
• Brucie questioned Deadshot about returning to Gotham, and Deadshot admitted she had taken a hundred-million-dollar contract to kill Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu offered Deadshot two hundred million to protect Brucie, but Deadshot declined and asked to be sent to Blackgate Prison.
• Talons climbed onto the rooftop, and Miao Mu grabbed Brucie and ran for the elevator while Deadshot shot the attackers.
• A Talon stabbed Deadshot to death, but the Talons who had been shot rose again and rushed after Brucie and Miao Mu.

Miao Mu and Brucie fought their way through Wayne Tower while Talons pursued them, then faced Deathstroke. The chapter ended with Miao Mu drawing Lion King's Sidearm and challenging Deathstroke to finish the fight.

• Miao Mu and Brucie fought off Talons in Wayne Tower using bullets, Batarangs, flashbangs, and Killer Frost's freezing serum.
• Miao Mu and Brucie set a trap for the Talons, killing two and scattering others before Deathstroke appeared.
• Deathstroke opened fire with an automatic shotgun, forcing Miao Mu and Brucie to take cover as Talons attacked from another direction.
• Miao Mu charged Deathstroke, blocked his bullets with his armor, and traded blows with him while Brucie fought a Talon nearby.
• Miao Mu drew Lion King's Sidearm, revealed its Nth Metal bayonet, and challenged Deathstroke to kill him or call off the fight.